Tell us the history of FDA. How did it get started? Why did it get started?

Yeah, so it's a fascinating history. It was a little over 100 years ago. There were some,

essentially some toxic chemicals that appeared, and people were getting very sick and even dying.

So a small group of people led an investigation to figure out where these

chemicals were originating from. You know, they used to put mercury in some foods. There used to be

heavy metals. And Coca-Cola had cocaine in it. That's why it was called Coke initially. So

the FDA began by sort of doing investigations. And people thought, hey, there's value in this.

Now it regulates 20% of the U.S. economy should probably be 15% or something far less.

And we have offices in 50 countries, and it oversees everything from mangoes coming across the border to cosmetics,

to MRI machines and microwave ovens to tobacco and vape products,

to wearables and devices, and of course, drugs.

Got it.

And for yourself, you know, obviously I watched you when you were coming up and when they were saying

he could be the head of the FBI, he could be the head of the FDA, and everybody was following kind

of some of the things you were talking. We've listened to you for many years, when, when,

especially during COVID, when you would come out and talk about certain things. But for you

having the job now, one, how was the phone call made, who called you and offered

you the job, and what's the experience been for you so far? Do you actually feel like you can

make direct impact?

Yeah, it's an awesome job. You can actually do stuff. You can actually get stuff done with

a very high level of impact in society. I've been there about

eight months. We've gotten a tremendous amount of stuff done, eliminating animal testing that's

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